The Soviet Union, or the USSR, was one of the most powerful and mysterious superpowers in history, with a lasting impact on ...

Revolution, Meir Abramovich Trilisser, the forerunner of the KGB, introduced the “illegals” as a weapon into an ...

Seventy years after Soviet dictator Josef Stalin "gifted" the Palace of Culture and Science to Warsaw, the towering ...

The battlecruisers were designed to project power and deter Western navies, but their obsolescence in the face of carrier-based warfare and the immense cost of construction rendered them utterly ...

Overlooked diaries written by teenage boys in pre-war Soviet Russia reveal relatable perspectives on love, lust, boredom, pressure to succeed and trying to fit in; but also experience of famine, exile ...

Ekaterina Zadirko, a Slavonic Studies researcher at Trinity College, Cambridge, studied 25 diaries written between 1930 and 1941. Most of the documents had never been studied before and preserved the ...

Josef Stalin, one of the most powerful and brutal leaders in history, left a legacy of death, destruction, and domination. In this Forgotten History episode, we explore the rise and fall of Stalin, ...

Nina L. Khrushcheva highlights the effects of Vladimir Putin’s long campaign to rehabilitate one of history’s great tyrants.